Clinch Mountain Echo

CMB Birthdays this month:

04 Feb 1972 - Steve Sparkman. Harlan, Kentucky.

04 Feb 1906 - Art Wooten. Born 'Arthur James Wooten' in Alleghany, North Carolina.

11 Feb 1960 - Junior Blankenship. Born at the old Grundy Hospital, Grundy, Va.

25 Feb 1927 - Ralph Stanley. Born 'Ralph Edmund Stanley' in Big Spraddle Creek, near Stratton, McClure, Virginia.

29 Feb 1932 - Jim Williams. Born 'James Lee Williams' in Wythe County, Virginia.


In Memoriam:

05 Feb 1980 - Chubby Anthony. Gainesville, Alachua, Florida.

08 Feb 2003 - Ralph 'Joe' Meadows. Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland.

08 Feb 1987 - Harold 'Red' Stanley. Fentress, Tennessee.


For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com

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Bill Monroe - Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord

(MCA 10017) 1991


Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord

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This album includes Carter Stanley's Harbor Of Love with Ralph singing lead and Ricky Skaggs lending a hand on guitar and bass vocal. The song was recorded at Reflections Studio, Nashville Tn. on 21st May 1990.

Cryin' Holy... was Bill Monroe's last full studio album, and also featured The Osborne Brothers, Jim & Jesse, Ricky Skaggs and Mac Wiseman helping out on vocals.

The Stanley Brothers had first cut Harbor Of Love in Aug. 1954, nearly 45 years before. Bill Monroe was also present at that session to over see the Stanley's recording of Blue Moon Of Kentucky. The Stanley Brothers version, with Ralph handling tenor vocals, was first released on the Calling From Heaven / Harbor Of Love (Mercury 70483) single in Nov 1954.

Bill Monroe's album can also be found in its entirety on his 'My Last Days On Earth - Bluegrass 1981-1994' 4xCD box set (Bear Family BCD-16637) 2007, which comes with a lavish hard-back book, an unreleased live Gospel album, and his final 1994 'Radio Special' with Marty Stuart.

The personnel on the Harbor... is as follows:-

  • Bill Monroe: mandolin, tenor vocal
  • Ralph Stanley: lead vocal
  • Ricky Skaggs: guitar, baritone vocal
  • Jimmy Campbell: fiddle
  • Tom Ewing: guitar
  • Billy Rose: bass
  • Clarence 'Tater' Tate: fiddle, bass vocal
  • Blake Williams: banjo

 

Track:
Vocals:
Title:
Time:
Date:
A-1
Mac Wiseman
Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord
02:55
24 Jul 1990

Irene Amburgey
A-2
Ralph Stanley
Harbor Of Love
03:27
21 May 1990

C. Stanley
A-3
Tom Ewing
Shine Hallelujah Shine
02:30
24 Jul 1990

Bill Monroe
A-4
Osborne Bros.
Just Over In The Glory Land
03:00
27 Jun 1990

J.E. Reynolds / W.P. Snyder
A-5
Tom Ewing
Just A Little Talk With Jesus
02:26
15 May 1990

Cleavant Derricks
A-6
Ricky Skaggs
You're Drifting Away
02:38
17 Jul 1990

Bill Monroe
A-7
Tom Ewing
He'll Take You In
03:02
17 Jul 1990

Billy Smith / Steffan Baker
A-8
Mac Wiseman
This World Is Not My Home
02:36
24 Jul 1990

Brumley & Sons
A-9
Tom Ewing
Baptize Me In The Cumberland River
02:35
27 Jun 1990

Bill Monroe
A-10
Jim & Jesse
Are You Lost In Sin
03:06
12 Jun 1990

Jim McReynolds / Jesse McReynolds

For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com

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